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Excerpt from Eikon Basilike; The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings: Together With His Private Prayers Used in the Time of His Restraint, and Delivered to Dr. Juxon, Bishop of London, Immediately Before His Death If Tray'rs can give Mi: what the Warres denie, Three Crowns dtfiinétly here in order do Prei'ent their objeets to my knowing view, Earths Crown lies humhled at my foot, difdain, Tums hright, hat heavie, and withall hut Vain, and now by Grace a Crown of Thorns I greet, Sharp was this Crown, hut not fo/harp This was Chrifis crown, my book Upon my bord Explains myheart, My hope is in thy iverd. My Starrie Crown of Glorie, laf't lice, Asfnll of Blijfe, as of Eternitie. Now look beh1nd, and midfi mofi troubled skies Behold, how clearerl from darknejfi rife, And Rand unmov'd triumphant, like a Rock, 'gain all the waves,& wmds tempeftuous {hock So like the 'palm, which heaviel'r weights do trite. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.